With Amnesty Betrayal, Republicans Reach For Whig-Dom

grasstopsusa.com ^ | 12/24/2014 | Don Feder

[massmike]

House Speaker John Boehner called it, "Another in a long line of mindless concessions." He was referring to Obama's announcement that we would resume diplomatic relations with Cuba, not his own mindless concession to the president by fully funding Obamnesty. Just weeks ago, Boehner promised to fight Obama's immigration power-grab "tooth and nail." He neglected to specify whose tooth and whose nail.

The $1 trillion CRomnibus bill includes full-funding of Obama's unconstitutional amnesty – $948 million for Homeland Security, an extra $80-million to HHS for the unaccompanied drug-dealers, gang-bangers and cheap labor, and $260 million to the State Department to assist Central American countries that have dumped their refuse on us.

With a perfectly straight face, the Republican establishment tells us that DHS is funded only through the end of February. After that, watch out. Republicans who run away will live to capitulate another day.

This abject surrender came a month after the GOP's sweeping victory. Polls show only 36% of Americans approve of Obama's handling of immigration, while 60% disapprove of executive amnesty. Not waiting for Republicans to not act (again), 17 state attorneys general are suing to have the order/memo/imperial decree overturned.

That darned Ted Cruz is always embarrassing the RINOs. The Texas senator got a point-of-order vote that said Obama's illegal order was illegal. Only 22 Republicans voted for it, while 20, including Mitch McConnell and the entire GOP leadership team, joined the Democrats in voting against it. Even symbolic battles give RINOs the vapors.

The Republican leadership in Congress betrayed their base, betrayed the middle class, betrayed the unemployed and betrayed America.

A report by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that the number of American-born workers has fallen by two million since 2007, despite population growth of 11 million. At the same time, jobs held by the foreign-born (illegal and legal) rose by 2 million. Republicans care about the jobless – almost as much as Democrats do.

Why infuriate the rank and file by abject surrender on a matter Middle America cares about so deeply? In part, because Boehner, McConnell and company are wimps, afraid to go up against a president who's outmaneuvered them time and again.

They believe Republican voters have very short memories, and that even if conservative activists are still outraged by 2016, all they have to do is wave Hillary, Commissar Warren or another Democrat horror before us and we'll panic and rush into their cynical embrace – as we've done so many times before.

A friend of mine is fond of saying: "Follow the money." By allowing imperial amnesty, Republicans are appeasing their donors.

In an October 23, 2013 story, The Wall Street Journal (voice of boardroom Republicans) disclosed, "Some big money Republican donors… are stepping up their warnings to GOP leaders that they risk long-term damage to the party if they fail to pass immigration legislation" (code for an amnesty). The long-term damage Republicans sustained in 2014 was gaining 9 Senate seats and close to a 60-seat majority in the House.

Republican moneybags are putting what they perceive to be self-interest ahead of national interest. They miss a minor detail: That open borders are destroying the nation that allows them to prosper. Think how much fun it will be when doing business in Milwaukee is like doing business in Mexico City, with its all-encompassing kleptocracy.

Casino Czar Sheldon Adelson spent $100 million on Republicans this year. "Let's start instituting a process in which undocumented immigrants receive benefits to legally work here. Let's provide them with the opportunity to get driver's licenses and bank accounts – simple things that we take for granted," Adelson wrote in an op-ed in leftist Politico earlier this year." Why not throw in foot-massages, while we're at it?

He's reported to have said that without a "comprehensive overhaul" of our immigration system, this nation will not be "the America I'm proud to live in."

Adelson can afford to be magnanimous. With a reported net worth of $30-billion, he doesn't have to worry about losing his job to a border-jumper, being victimized by illegal-alien criminals (who crowd our jails and prisons), or seeing housing values in his gated community decline as it starts to resemble Tijuana.

Sheldon's business doesn't suffer from illegal immigration; it thrives on it. Who do you think busses tables, washes dishes and cleans rooms in his hotels? With amnesty will come more welfare spending. Taxpayers will subsidize the kitchen-help of a multi-billionaire.

Yet it's the Adelsons, hankering for cheap, immigrant labor, who control the primaries where Republican candidates are chosen. They proved it this year.

With the exception of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the establishment beat back every Tea Party challenger. In Mississippi, they made it possible for six-term Senator Thad Cochran to overcome Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel. Karl Rove's American Crossroads Super Pac, the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee dumped millions on Cochran's reelection bid. As a result, while McDaniel and Cochran were tied in the primary, the incumbent won the runoff.

Now, the donor class has its sights set on a bigger prize.

A December 8 New York Times story reveals: "Dozens of the Republican Party's leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party's banner in 2016." They've narrowed the field to Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (whose post-Sandy bear-hug helped to reelect the president) and Mitt Romney, the man who anesthetized the base in 2012. That makes two pro-amnesty candidates and one who pretends to oppose it.

Just before the last election, I did a commentary titled: "Vote Republican, Even If It Hurts." My profound apologies. I didn't know the pain would come so soon, and on such a crucial issue.

I've consistently cautioned against a conservative third party. The logistics are daunting (raising $100 million for a presidential campaign, replicating the state and local apparatus, etc.). But the time may have come when we have no choice. Boehner, McConnell and the money boys are 21st century Whigs, thinking they can sell out those who care about national identity and not pay the price.

Win or lose, wouldn't it be nice to have a party whose soul isn't for sale – a party that represents the middle class in reality, instead of just rhetorically.

[sauropod]

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[BuffaloJack]

I actually joined the New Whig Party about a year ago.
Small government, obey the Constitution, conservative.

[Liz]

YOO, HOO, GOPe----remember us? The people who voted last November? The treasure trove of Republican wins---Senate, Congress, down-ticket state wins of governors, legislatures, etc ---- have yet to be fully- mined, but what we already know is mind-boggling.

<><> GRASSROOT REPUBLICANS (NOT THE GOPE) LAUNCHED A STUNNING ELECTORAL HISTORY...

<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;

<><> Landrieu's loss means Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,

<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,

<><> Of 140 Southern States election districts---110 went Republican.

<><> GOP's House majorities are so huge and solid NBC's Chuck Todd says Dems can't recapture losses until 2022.

<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;

<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.

<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors---important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.

<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district---every single House and Senate district went Repub

<><>GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)

<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: "latino vote is zilch"---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.

<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (per Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).

<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass. .

<><> GOP has every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.

<><> Clinton's politically useless---most candidates they flacked lost.

<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,

<><> Repubs hold 246 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman administration after World War II. An Arizona recount leaves one House race still outstanding.

<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.

<><> Arizona Republican McSally wins last open House seat after recount (Gaby Giffords seat)

<><> McSally's Arizona win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in the Arizona congressional delegation,

<><>Republican Congress holds largest House majority in 83 years....

The midterm annihilation of Dems were not black votes, they were not latino votes, they were not moderate voters......these were grassroots votes w/ a powerful message....."STOP OBAMA."

[Liz]

As Kurt Schlichter opined ....."let's understand that our real goal is to destroy everything Obama stands for – his lies, elitism, the quasi-fascist dream of controlling every aspect of other people’s lives. This is the time to strike. Our enemies are on the run.....the military knows that you defeat the enemy in detail during a rout. Let's hunt them down. Let's finish off progressivism. And let's do it by not being stupid......."

I'll drink to that.

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Read more Schlichter here:

A Massive, Humiliating And Awesome Rejection Of The Liberals
Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2014 | Kurt Schlichter / FR Posted by Kaslin

[pallis]

The Republican left is out to destroy the Tea Party and conservatives. They expect us to act like the battered wife who keeps hanging on, beating after beating, while they flaunt their political whores in our face. ...As self defeating as a third party for conservatives might be, the Republican left is worse.

[Cheerio]

MITCH MCCONNELL: BEING PARTY OF YES MORE IMPORTANT THAN DEFUNDING EXEC AMNESTY

[Nateman]

[Lazamataz]

I looked it up. Modern Whig Party is the name. I will write an article today to explore the possibilities.

[Lazamataz]

The 'Modern Whig Party' has this in the wikipedia entry: "Immediately after the election of November 4, 2008, a push began to attract moderate and conservative Democrats, and members of the Republican Party (GOP) who felt disenchanted with both the GOP's failings and its perception as moving further to the right.[21]"

Not for em.

[Lazamataz]

Why infuriate the rank and file by abject surrender on a matter Middle America cares about so deeply? In part, because Boehner, McConnell and company are wimps, afraid to go up against a president who's outmaneuvered them time and again.

Dear Don Feder,

You are a good guy, but you are clueless.

They are not wimps.

They are collaboraters.

[Hostage]

Writer hits every point for a score except in thinking that McConnell-Boehner will pay a price — no, they won’t pay anything. They have already been paid and will be paid for the rest of the Earthly existence.

[jsanders2001]

Going to make a prediction about the future:

After Obama leaves office an audit will discover that he and numerous senators created networks of shell companies that siphoned hundreds of millions or billions from taxpayer funds that we’re dumped into offshore accounts that cannot be linked directly to their names or social security numbers many countries already do this; they have special account handlers that handle their accoubt; subpoenas to these institutions will be ignored and the existence of their accounts denied; this happens daily in Mexico; worked on a case a few years ago and found this to be the case). Many of these companies will be human rights, community activism, and green companies that received large donations and/or grants from the federal government that did absolutely nothing except receive said funds. Many of the addresses will be traced back to Jarrett, his attorneys, and his cronies.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[rustbucket]

I had recommended to my own congressman that he vote against the bill and he did. The Omnibus bill wasn't everything we wanted, but there were some good things in the bill. Here are links to information sent out by Representative Culberson of Texas who voted for the bill:

Link 1 that lists a lot of things conservatives got into the bill

Link 2 that addresses Amnesty, illegal alien children, and ObamaCare

[jaydee770]

Why call it “Whig”-anything, after a failed party that can so easily be “Alinsky’d” by the media? Why not something the low-info voter can more easily digest, like “Constitutional-Patriot” party or something like that? At least make the media work for it.

And let’s be honest with ourselves — the critical mass of low-info voters is the big challenge as they are always voting for the “Santa-Claus” candidate. Think of the idiot voters in OH and KY who inflicted Boehner and McConnell on us again.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to disparage, it just seems that conservatives are obsessed with making things more difficult than they really need to be. Just keep it simple, dangit!

Maybe I just need more coffee. Ok, I take it all back.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

[Duckdog]

All that, plus more, and the rinos surrender faster than a french-man in a thunderstorm.

[Hardens Hollow]

The name gets me too. Why name yourself after something that was defeated and died? Although I like what the Whigs stood for and like the name because it looks back into history -something not done nearly often enough -most people will have a negative connotation that will have to be overcome. Not a good way to start.